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Discussion on: Idea or execution? What is more important?

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Benjamin Köppchen • Edited

This happens when a founders’ execution is so on point that they can
make relatively okay businesses out of any idea

Having an "ok business" is a success. How can this beeing framed as a negative?
Having a business "not beeing able to grow" is just a niche business, which is totally OK too. It's ok to be Figureskating, you don't improve by trying to be more like Football.
If you absolutely, definitively need to grow, focus on "scaling down" (ie, achieve your case with little effort), and use the freed time for the next business.

IMHO, another data point for Ideas beeing irrelevant - if execution is trainable, but ideas are not, that means they are an post hoc explanation for, not an inherent quality of, the success.